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Re: Postponing postinst stuff for later execution



On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 06:53:32PM +0200, Frank K?ster wrote:
> uwe@steinmann.cx (Uwe Steinmann) wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 05:53:28PM +0200, Norbert Preining wrote:
> >> Dear all!
> >> 
> >> I want to postpone some actions of the postinst script to a later
> >> timepoint, after dpkg has finished installing stuff. I guess you know
> >> why, several runs of updmap-sys and fmtutil-sys --all just takes toooo
> >> long.

There are plans afoot to provide this functionality in dpkg.  The
problem with the zope solution is that if apt isn't used, the
postponed actions won't be run.

   Julian



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